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From: (Bronwen Edwards)
Subject: Re: Scottish Tribes of Jewish Origin
Date: 16 Nov 2004 23:37:46 -0800
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Doug McDonald <> wrote in message news:<cnd7gp$nvo$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu>...
>
>
> Well, I actually HAVE the Scottish part of the data, almost
> 650 DNA profiles. If give me numbers, I can compare.
>
> That said, this supposedly refers to Sephardic. Ashkenazi
> Jewish I know a little bit about. They, and the descendants
> of Somerled, the MacDonalds, are haplogroup R1a. However,
> there is a clear difference in haplotype between us and
> them ... the split was very long ago, somwhere in
> the Mideast of the eastern Mediterranean. The number of
> R1a people in the Scottish clan study, which does not
> contain MacDonalds, as we have our own study, is about 10
> out of 500. In the MacDonalds it is about 30 out of 150.
>
> Doug McDonald
>
> Doug McDonald

Isn't there a migration account in the Scandinavian countries linking
the ancient Yngling Dynasty to migrants from Constantinople? Also, I
have read any number of books that place the origin of the Picts near
the Black Sea. Although probably not provable, it always intrigues me
when traditional origin accounts dovetail from different directions.

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